Building-partition.



Patented Apr. 1, 1913.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 1 L. P. JACKSON BUILDING PARTITION.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 5, 1911.

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BUILDING PARTITION.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT.5, 1911,

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Specification of Letters Patent.-

Application filed September 5, 1911. Serial He. states.

To all whom it may concern: I

Be it known that TL, Louis F. JAoKsoN, a

citizen r the United States, residing inthe city and county of Denver and State of Colorado, have invented ertain new and useful Improvements. in uilding-Partitions; and 1 do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such 'as will enable others skilled in the artth which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the characters of reference marked thereon, which fo rm'a part of this specification.

l invention relates to building partition ,where a relatively thin fire-proof b aid is applied to vertically-disposed studs in order to form a support for the plaster of walls. This board is called plaster board, and-in order to make the partitions fire- 'preo f ,-it is used instead of the ordinary lath applied to studs to support the plaster.

My present invention is employed in connection with partitions of the aforesaid character and heretofore illustrated and described in connection with LettersPatent ofthe United States No. 998,2Q3, issued to me July 18, 1911; and an application filed by me July 29th, 1-911,-seria1 No. cereal.

The features of my present improvement, as set forth in this specificat1on, w1ll be illustrated and-described in connect on wrth the specific construction disclosed in the scale, illustratlng the use of my improved 3 aforesaid a plication, though it may be advantageous y employed in connection with any suitable means for securing the plaster board, or similar sheeting, to partition studs. y p

The novel feature of'my present HHPIOV- .ment consists of a sort of ill-shaped clip,

adapted to straddle the stud, on one side, and hook over the plaster board applied to the stud ,on the opposite side- Theseclips are employed in connection with the studs located intermediate the plaster board joints, and, consequently intermediate the opposlte vertical edges of the plaster board My present invention makes provision for hereinafter be fully described in detail, ref- 1 erence being made to the accompanylng drawing, in which is illustrated an embodiment thereof.

ln'this drawing: Figurel is a perspective view of one form of my improved clip. F ig'.

2 is a cross section, taken through a stud do with plasterboard shown in connection therewith the clip being applied to the stud and boar Fig. 3 is a side elevation oil. the same, or a view looking'in the direction of arrow 3, Fig. 4. Fig. i is a section, taken on the line M, Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a view, looking in the direction of arrow 5, Fig. 4. Fig. 6 is a perspective view in detail, illustrating a modified form of clip. Fig. 7 is a detail view, illustrating still another form of retaining clip. Fig. 8 is a similar View, v

illustrating a' clip of the same shape as in Fig; 7, but formed of. a flatpiece of material, instead of a round-wire. ,Fig. 9 is a fragmentary side elevation of a partition, showing the form of clip illustrated in Fig. 7 applied. This is a viewlooking in the di-' rection of arrow 9, Fig. 10. Fig. 10 is a. section, taken on the line 10+10, Fig '9',- looking toward the left, or in the direction till of the arrow. Fig. 11 is a view'looking in a the direction of arrow 11, Fig. 10. Fig.12

is an elevation, shown on a relatively small clips, shown in connection with a plaster .looard partition, where the sections of board are arranged-tobreak joints. .Fig. 13 is a similar view, where the plaster boards are diflerently arranged, or Where the vertical joints. between the board sections. are arranged in vertical lines, rather than in staggored relation-,. as illustrated in Fig.12.

Fig. leis a section, taken on the line 1444, Fig. 12.

lhe same reference characters indicate the same parts in all the views.

Let the numeral 5 designate a stud, which, it may he assumedis vertically disposed hetween the joists of the door and ceiling of a. room. As shown in the drawing, this stud is composed of channel iron, though it may be of any suitableor desirable form. The plaster hoard 6 is applied to one of the vertical faces of a stud. My improved clip 7 is formed of a piece-of wire, which may be I caused to straddle the stud, while their outer either round, flat, or ofanyother desirable shape in cross section. p

In Fig. 1, the clip is made'of'wire, round in cross section, while in Fig. 6, it is shown flat. This clip is first bent to form allshaped device havih twdparallelarms 8 connected by a bend It is afterward bent intermediate the extremities of thearms 8, as shown at 10, whereby it isV-shaped. In applying the clip to the stud, the arms 8 are portions 12'engagethe plaster board. on the opposite side from the stud. Byvirtue of the peculiar shape of these clips, they are ward/1y, thetighter it claspso-r clamps the caused to clamp the board to the stud as the clips are forced downwardly on the stud, since the farther the clipis moved downtwo connected parts .by virtue, of the V- shaped construction of'the clip, as hereto fore described. As the form of construction illustrated in Figs. 1 and 6 is used in exactly the same manner, a" separate description ofthe use and application of these two forms of clip is not considered necessary. It maybe stated, however, that the forms of clip illustrated in Figs. 1 to-6, in-

-elusive, areiespecially advantageous in connection with a partition where the plaster board sections are arranged as illustrated in Fig. 12, in which the plasterboard sections are staggered, so to speak. For instance,

the two .sections,see Fig. 12,and desigwith a stud. 5 by means of clips 13 and keys 14;, as illustrated in my aforesaid applica-- tion. Now, directly above the meeting. edges of the two sections 6 is a third section 6, which is so arranged that the center of the section is in/line with the two meeting edges of the section 6 below. Inthis event, my improved clip 7 is applied to the stud 5 at both the upper and lower edges of the upper section 6, the hooked extremity extend- 'wardly.

nated 6, have their vertical edgesconnected form of construction is employed, the U-- is caused toshaped member of the clip straddle thestud 6 at the horizontalmeeting edges of two plaster board sections,';

see Fig. 13,'while one of its extremities 17 engages the plaster board section above the horizontal joint, and the other extremity 17 I engages thesection below the same joint, the U-shaped body member of the clip'being in line with the joint and disposed between the two board sections. This form of the clip maybe advantageously used at the horizontal joints of the plaster board sections, be-f tween the floor and the ceiling, or any other two surfaces, where the plaster board sec tions are not arranged in staggered relation. At the top and bottom of'the stud, however, in this form of construction, I prefer to employ the clip 7', the clip at the top having its .hook 1 shaped extremities '12 extending downwardly, while the one at the bottom has its corresponding parts directed up- Having thus described my'invention, what I-cla'im is: p

In combination, a vertical stud, sheeting applied thereto upon one side,-a U-shaped clip adapted to straddle the stud, said clip beinginclined upwardly toward the sheet ing side of the stud and having its extremities bent downwardlyinto a vertical plane to engage the sheeting upon the side remote from-the stud.

In testimony whereof I aliix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

I, LOUIS FJACKSUN. ,VVitnesses:

F. E. BOWEN,

A. EBERT OBRrEN. 

